When a middle-aged couple downsizes to the countryside for an easier life, their two daughters become isolated, argumentative and violent ⦠A chilling, vicious and darkly funny psychological thriller from bestselling author Helen FitzGerald.  âSharp, shocking and savagely funny. Helen Fitzgerald is a wonderfully original storytellerâ Chris Whitaker  âA new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event ⦠magnificentâ Mark Billingham  âI devoured Keep Her Sweet ⦠shite parenting and a dysfunctional sister relationship goes to fatal extremesâ Erin Kelly âââââââââââââââââââââââââââââ Desperate to enjoy their empty nest, Penny and Andeep downsize to the countryside, to forage, upcycle and fall in love again, only to be joined by their two twenty-something daughters, Asha and Camille. Living on top of each other in a tiny house, with no way to make money, tensions simmer, and as Penny and Andeep focus increasingly on themselves, the girls become isolated, argumentative and violent. When Asha injures Camille, a family therapist is called in, but she shrugs off the escalating violence between the sisters as a classic case of sibling rivalry ⦠and the stress of the family move. But this is not sibling rivalry. The sisters are in far too deep for that. This is a murder, just waiting to happen⦠Chilling, vicious and darkly funny, Keep Her Sweet is not just a tense, sinister psychological thriller, but a startling look at sister relationships and they bonds they share ⦠or shatter.  âââââââââââââââââââââââââ âA wonderful book about a toxic family ⦠funny, shocking and full of heart. FitzGerald at her coruscating best' Doug Johnstone  âDefinitely one for those who love deadly dysfunctional families, whip-smart writing, and their stories dark, dark, deliciously darkâ Amanda Jennings  âA novel rippling with power and intensity. A true page-turnerâ Michael Wood  âWickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling ⦠a book youâll want to talk aboutâ Miranda Dickinson  âHelen Fitzgerald has an uncanny ability to balance savagery and hilarity ⦠an absolute banger of a bookâ Matt Wesolowski  'A crazy but addictive, dark and funny, readâ Louise Beech  âDark humour sings from the pagesâ Russel McLean  âA fascinating and original tale of a family in rapid declineâ Jen Medâs Book Reviews âYou will canter through this psychological thrillerâ Café Thinking  Praise for Helen FitzGerald *Worst Case Scenario was Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR* *Sunday Times TOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years* *Longlisted for Theakstonâs Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020*  âThe main character is one of the most extraordinary youâll meet between the pages of a bookâ Ian Rankin âSublimeâ Guardian  âThis darkly, funny, shocking and surprisingly emotional thriller is unlike anything youâve ever read beforeâ Fabulous âA dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh out loud funny at the same timeâ Mark Edwards  âUrgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novelâ Erin Kelly âTantalisingly powerfulâ The Times âAsh Mountain is the author at her masterly best ⦠I loved it!â Louise Candlish âThe classic thriller gets a hell of a twistâ Heat âFitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Rothâ Daily Telegraph âDomestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this â but that only makes you hungry for moreâ The Sun